I am not a lawyer. I am not sure if your explanation absolves the two hotels. But, since I am not versed in constitutional law, I cannot pursue the discussion.

Again, thank you for the making the public record straight. And, best wishes in your fight for human dignity, human rights, and diversity. I spent nearly four years in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina and have seen firsthand the human tragedy that is a consequence of hatred.

To be clear, in our communications with both the DC area public and hotels, our objective has been to educate them about who and what the New Century Foundation is and how they are linked to the American Renaissance. Many in the public and DC area hotels are completely unaware of this and therefore, are unable to make informed decisions on these groups.

We HAVE NOT asked hotels to "cancel" the American Renaissance conference, but what we HAVE asked for is space to provide an alternative message of hope and love at the hotel which promotes diversity, human rights, and dignity for all people of all races. Moreover, local religious leaders have told us that they are willing to have a prayer vigil to ask AR conference members to choose love, not hate. It has been the hotels' decisions to cancel the AR conferences. Once they know who the AR is, they don’t want to have any part of it.

We have not sought to deny anyone’s freedom of speech. We have simply exercised our own freedom of speech in rejecting ideologies of hate and educating the public on who the NCF and AR are, so that they can make up their own mind on them.

To those who ask us to debate Jared Taylor, in fact, we have specifically invited him to a public event in front of the American public to allow him to voice his opinions. He has declined to accept that invitation. As to how well television cameras will "broadcast" such a public debate, I think those who believe that will happen have a limited understanding of the priorities of local television stations’ programming.

R.E.A.L. is an an all-volunteer organization, and we are not ashamed to readily admit we have limited finances and resources, like many other volunteer organizations.

We are always looking for other activists willing to help, and we invite those who are interested in being consistently Responsible for Equality And Liberty to let us know at RealCourage.org.